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by enoch_r 14y ago
>This found its reductio in Bryan Caplan, who suggested that voters are rationally ignorant of politics because the costs outweigh the benefits, and so economists (who are obviously right about everything) should dictate public policy.
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What's remarkable to me is how many here find this insulting. We exist on the upper crust of the first world and are actually insulted because someone claims that Argentinians aren't actually backwards incompetents. We take offense becaus
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This is true for a rather extreme value of "a lot": The USD is worth about 7.3% more JPY today than on January 25, and 300% more BTC today than yesterday.
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Taxi drivers are allowed to get medallions. But since the supply is so low, they usually cost a few hundred thousand dollars. So people rent instead. Fixing that by outlawing medallion-rental is like trying to make housing costs cheaper b
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by enoch_r 14y ago
This! For the same functionality on OS X, I use KeyRemap4MacBook (terrible name, great program). Edit: sbader beat me to it. His link is where I originally got the idea, and is definitely worth a read--to some extent I think a lot of it is
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Generally when people advocate using hjkl, they're doing so: A: for use within vim (where "i" has another meaning already), or B: for people who have a long history using vim and are already used to the hjkl paradigm, or C: (most often) bot
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I hadn't realized--thanks for the tip!
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git reflog Before I learned that command, I'd seen git as a backup tool with some scary options for manipulating history that I didn't want to touch for fear they'd blow up on me. After learning about git reflog, I finally underst
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Nope, I've done it quite a few times--you can bootstrap it from your vimrc like so: if !isdirectory(expand(root, 1).'/vundle') exec '!git clone '.src.' '.shellescape(root, 1).'/vundle' endif
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I recently switched to Vundle from Pathogen and it is a joy to use. Best part: you can bootstrap[1] Vundle from your .vimrc, turning the two-part "vimrc & plugins" configuration into a one-part "vimrc" configuration. https://github.com
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by enoch_r 14y ago
You're absolutely right, and people are being very hyperbolic. However: Obama's power to launch a targeted strike against an American citizen does not exactly "derive from the AUMF." It derives from the Obama administration's interpretatio
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Just happened to read this[1] article today--apparently the first was back in 2011: In June 2011 a county sheriff in North Dakota was trying to track down three men, possibly carrying guns, in connection with some missing cows. He had a lot
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by enoch_r 14y ago
Why does Mega's security matter to Mega? It seems like they've implemented encryption to provide plausible deniability that they're knowingly hosting pirated content, not to actually protect the privacy of users, the vast majority of whom w
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Whether or not you're convinced by the article--and personally I don't think it belongs here--comparing the argument that "slavery is okay because slaves are not so bad off" to the argument that "the measured stagnation in wages does not in
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Diversity of academic institutions is accomplished by being unique on a huge number of axes. I sympathize with this woman, but at the same time, the same-sex restrictions at Deep Springs probably deeply influence the culture there--there's
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Do you think it's implausible that having nude photographs distributed to one's entire school is far more traumatizing than gossip?
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However, no matter what you think, Government Surveillance is better than private surveillance. It's a democracy for crying out loud. There are two types of power within a group: exit and voice. The power to change a community, and the po
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by enoch_r 14y ago
This is simply absurd. Does this professor look around, and see high-speed wireless internet, computers in our pockets, regular globe-spanning airline flights, fast, safe vehicles, high-definition color televisions, washing machines, dishwa
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by enoch_r 14y ago
Having done this occasionally, it usually wasn't bad at all, but occasionally it got frustrating enough that I'd use a local clone of the repo. It's for that reason that I'm hesitant to go this route (or the iPad/keyboard route). Interestin
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Obama already authorized a targeted killing of an American citizen (Anwar al-Aulaqi) and his Denver-born, US-citizen son. Both of those killings were carried out via drone in late 2011.
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I definitely see this the other way around. It's like music or art--people who don't care about an aesthetic pursuit are going to be the ones who never develop a "refined taste." And the pop music of food consists of sugar, refined carbs, a
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I think this relies on an overestimation of the planning and foresight that goes into most pregnancies. About half of US pregnancies are unplanned, and it certainly seems like there are large segments of the population for whom even relativ
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This is too specific for my taste. I'd say this instead: Everyone should try new things. Being really good at one thing is awesome, but we learn the most from sucking at stuff. So find something you suck at and work at it and improve at it
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The problem with the unused articles is slightly subtler than "it will use up our hard disk space!" A friend of mine recently created a Wikipedia article for one of her own economic theories. She is not an economist, and as far as I know ha
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by enoch_r 14y ago
If I could say what I wanted, but only if the government determined that my speech provided "value for society," I don't think I'd consider myself to have state-enforced "speech rights." Speech privileges, maybe, but "rights" is definitely
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>> mobile application (either web based or native app)
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That is how it has worked for a relatively short period of time, since the appearance of modern newspapers--at the earliest, in the 1830's. With the advent of cheap, instantaneous publishing, it seems that our expectations are getting close
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I agree to some extent (on this particular page the contrast is far too low). But low contrast has some benefits too--specifically, reduced eyestrain. On most sites, high contrast is fine, but if something is meant to be read--blogs, articl
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by enoch_r 14y ago
Thank you for that fascinating link. I've never understood why, if bcrypt is good because it's slow, a similarly slow implementation of SHA wouldn't be just as effective. Now I do. Really appreciate it!
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Do you have Go installed? If so, just clone the repo into your $GOPATH/src directory and 'go install pgen/mawud'. Then, you can generate a password using 'mawud gmail'--you'll be prompted for your password. You can use flags to set paramete

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